Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for someone to join our Mental Health Support Team in Lincoln as a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP)/Low -intensity CBT Practitioner at Band 5 (Agenda for Change). This is a diverse role as noted in the job description, and an opportunity to make a real difference in outcomes for children, young people, and families by offering early support and intervention.

The post is advertised as full time hours (Mon-Fri 9-5), however other working patterns may be considered.

The Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) support children and young people aged 5-18 within school and college settings who are presenting with mental health or emotional wellbeing problems which are of a low to moderate level of complexity and/or intensity.

The post holder will support several allocated education settings across Lincoln and surrounding areas in offering support to children and young people and their families. A key part of the role is around implementing Public Health England’s Whole School Approach, part of which will be to deliver training, workshops and assemblies to the wider educational communities and promote awareness of mental health within the educational settings.

CLOSING DATE: 26th March 2023

INTERVIEW DATE: 31st March 2023

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact Belinda Robins on 07966 180518 or email

Main duties of the job

As an MHST practitioner, you will hold a caseload of young people, providing interventions for mild-moderate mental health needs using Low-Intensity CBT and other evidence based interventions. You will also lead in implementing the Whole School Approach within your allocated settings by providing regular consultation, advice and training to professionals.

You will receive regular managerial and clinical supervision to support you throughout this role. There will be opportunity to access internal training as well as identification of other development needs via your appraisal.

This is advertised as full-time post operating Monday to Friday 9am-5pm, however other working patterns can be considered.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Date posted

09 March 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£27,055 to £32,934 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

274-8894-SP

Job locations

Horizon Centre

Monsoon Street

Lincoln

LN5 7RZ

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP)/Low-intensity CBT practitioner will work as an autonomous and responsible practitioner as their training affords and with appropriate supervision, and engage in;

Delivering Low-intensity CBT and other evidence-based interventions for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems

Helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services

Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing

Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services

And to use the acquired skills, knowledge and abilities to deliver a service based within education settings that builds on and reinforces but does not replace those initiatives that already exist within these environments.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP)/Low-intensity CBT practitioner will work as an autonomous and responsible practitioner as their training affords and with appropriate supervision, and engage in;

Delivering Low-intensity CBT and other evidence-based interventions for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems

Helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services

Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing

Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services

And to use the acquired skills, knowledge and abilities to deliver a service based within education settings that builds on and reinforces but does not replace those initiatives that already exist within these environments.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr ‘Education Mental Health Practitioner’ course
  • Or other low intensity-CBT qualification Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner qualification, Enhanced Evidence Based Practitioner, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Desirable

  • A further relevant degree qualification
  • Teaching qualification
  • Youth Mental Health First Aid trained

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of delivering low intensity CBT interventions
  • Experience of working with children and their families in a healthcare setting
  • Experience of delivering whole school approach work
  • Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
  • Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties
  • Experience of working with anxiety disorders
  • Experience of working with affective (mood) disorders

Desirable

  • Experience of the delivery of other therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families
  • Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for children’s emotional wellbeing
  • Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priorities or agendas
  • Experience of working with looked after children

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children
  • Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with families
  • Ability to conduct group therapeutic interventions with children and their families
  • Ability to conduct group parenting programmes
  • Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group
  • Ability to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people
  • Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate appropriately
  • Ability take appropriate action to mitigate or manage risk

Desirable

  • Ability to teach others about mental health issues
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr ‘Education Mental Health Practitioner’ course
  • Or other low intensity-CBT qualification Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner qualification, Enhanced Evidence Based Practitioner, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner

Desirable

  • A further relevant degree qualification
  • Teaching qualification
  • Youth Mental Health First Aid trained

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of delivering low intensity CBT interventions
  • Experience of working with children and their families in a healthcare setting
  • Experience of delivering whole school approach work
  • Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
  • Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties
  • Experience of working with anxiety disorders
  • Experience of working with affective (mood) disorders

Desirable

  • Experience of the delivery of other therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families
  • Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for children’s emotional wellbeing
  • Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priorities or agendas
  • Experience of working with looked after children

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children
  • Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with families
  • Ability to conduct group therapeutic interventions with children and their families
  • Ability to conduct group parenting programmes
  • Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group
  • Ability to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people
  • Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate appropriately
  • Ability take appropriate action to mitigate or manage risk

Desirable

  • Ability to teach others about mental health issues

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .

Additional information

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .